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Diaries of Note
To pay up would constitute a precedent Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and...
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Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and a remarkable ability to discern the pulse of contemporary drama. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1927, he began documenting his life and thoughts in diaries from the age of six, a...
Quantum Frontiers
Crossing the quantum chasm: From NISQ to fault tolerance On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a...
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On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a transcript of my remarks. Toward quantum value The theme of this year’s Q2B meeting is “The Roadmap to Quantum Value.” I … Continue reading →
Open Culture
Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless...
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Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from...
Eric Bailey
On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could...
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A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could delicately, patiently, and painstakingly debunk the gigantic, misplaced swing of a man who is burning others' lived experience as fuel to propel his increasingly irrelevant career. I could...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
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a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten. Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The One Who Kept VLC Free Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for...
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Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that. Money can restrict you. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 May 11 - May 19 SimPocalypse Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always...
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SimPocalypse Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always preferred the simplicity of its symbolic graphics. I remember when SimCity 2000 came out and, despite all its upgrades, I still played the old version. Same thing for Civilization, and...
Rozado’s Visual...
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
5 months ago
Old Structures...
Three Dimentionality I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the...
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I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the first tall buildings constructed there. Here’s an overall view of the original wing (the building is L shaped, with the wings constructed at different times): It’s not deserted – the...
Noahpinion
What if Xi Jinping isn't that competent? (repost) Plus a new update showing how right I was.
a year ago
Londonist
Where To Recycle Or Dispose Of Your 2023 Christmas Tree In London Which London boroughs recycle them?
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the morning of April...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the morning of April 28, 1958, the USS Boxer aircraft carrier ship was about 70 miles off the coast of the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The crew of the Boxer was preparing to launch a...
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Fed Chair Powell's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Microscopically Lower to Start New...
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From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Microscopically Lower to Start New Week Mortgage rates have been on a vacation from volatility since January 16th when they fell back toward 7% after hitting the highest levels since May 2024. Top tier 30yr fixed rates...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo
11 months ago
Londonist
Visit The Ankerwycke Yew, The "Last Surviving Witness To The Signing Of Magna Carta" A remarkable tree on the edge of London.
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
Primeval freedom, the anarch and the anarchist Have I, for the last 30 years, been mistakenly self-identifying as an anarchist?
7 months ago
A Smart Bear
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...
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How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot...
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People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot of serious people thought we were…
SatPost by Trung...
9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
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Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
99% Invisible
Single Handed (3 of 6): Inclusive Left-Sided Apparel Embodies “Found Fashion” Ethos Last year, I found myself working my way through my wardrobe, considering what I could and couldn’t...
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Last year, I found myself working my way through my wardrobe, considering what I could and couldn’t wear comfortably with a newly disabled right arm. Among other concerns, I knew a lot of my clothes would be harder to put on and take off for the foreseeable future. But in the...
Seth's Blog
The interaction cascade Walk into an office, and the person behind the desk begins an interaction. You respond (or react)....
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Walk into an office, and the person behind the desk begins an interaction. You respond (or react). They respond (or react) in turn. Answer the phone. Caller ID tells you who it is–are you smiling? How much enthusiasm or disdain or annoyance or delight comes through? The caller...
Seth's Blog
Our new school When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small...
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When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small royalty that I earmark for worthy causes. This year, we were able to help BuildOn and the community in Khakh build a new school. It’s the first real school building the village has ever...
Society's Backend:...
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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Josh Collinsworth
Five Ways to Become a Better Designer (That Aren't Design) There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need...
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There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
Rest of World -...
Gig drivers in South Africa clash over Bolt’s low-priced Indian cars Bolt introduced the cars to bring down fares. Now, other drivers see them as a threat.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The network scam Lana Swartz coined this term in her breakthrough paper on crypto. A scam always involves a...
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Lana Swartz coined this term in her breakthrough paper on crypto. A scam always involves a transaction. In the traditional fraud, the scammer tells a lie and the buyer, either with or without diligence, believes it and loses everything. You buy the magic beans, but they don’t...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
I used to knock on the doors of old ladies No, it wasn't a prank. Lonely women were the only people home in our apartment complex during the...
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No, it wasn't a prank. Lonely women were the only people home in our apartment complex during the days when I was homeschooled. Most of the time the ladies would invite me in. They would offer me dry cookies or hard candy and tell me stories about their grandkids. Sometimes I...
Damn Interesting
The Mount St. Helens Trespasser The Washington state deputy sheriff looked suspiciously at the motorcycle strapped to the back of...
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The Washington state deputy sheriff looked suspiciously at the motorcycle strapped to the back of the odd little French car. The motorcycle was a recently repaired Honda 90, sporting a fresh coat of grey spray paint. The driver, Robert Rogers, kept a neutral expression as the...
Noahpinion
The end of the "vibecession"? Maybe people are being irrationally pessimistic. Or maybe it's just all about real wages.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
The marvelous disappearing capacitor The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
7 months ago
Left To Write
What A Bottle of Coke In A Luxury Five Star Resort Taught Me About Selling Where Is Just As Important As What
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly...
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Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly and easily. What is the AARRR framework? The AARRR…
Noahpinion
Liberalism is losing the information war Because it's refusing to fight.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Helping Japanese companies build global engineering teams TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building...
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TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building English-speaking engineering teams. This is our first step towards our goal of helping these companies internationalize their engineering departments, which will allow them to take...
Rest of World -...
The decline of India’s largest EV company — in charts Ola Electric Mobility struggles to maintain its edge as legacy players tap into customer trust and...
4 months ago
Ben Borgers
Publishing my Fall 2022 class notes
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
New York City is poised for a tech revival One thing that was puzzling about the “web 2.0 boom” from 2003-2008 was how irrelevant the East...
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One thing that was puzzling about the “web 2.0 boom” from 2003-2008 was how irrelevant the East Coast, and particular New York City, was…
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
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When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Eric Bailey
Dot website I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to...
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I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to my RSS feed (and thank you if you do!), the new URL is: https://ericwbailey.website/feed/feed.xml Before this website was .design it was a .com. I’m not a company, and my...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.28 - Opposable Thumbs New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
So why write a blog? I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
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I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
Notes on software...
Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface...
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It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface for data stored in S3. But one missing critical feature in gosql is LIMIT and OFFSET support. This post walks through the few key changes to gosql to support LIMIT and OFFSET. You...
haseeb qureshi
What explains the rise of AMMs? Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
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Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?” You’d run...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Social Inflation Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers. You love it! Your...
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Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers. You love it! Your follower count is going up! Instead of a nobody with a couple hundred followers, you’ve bypassed the 1k+ mark and it keeps going! You’re ecstatic! This is the “next step” you were...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Coordination, Good and Bad
over a year ago
The Diff
Why Volatility Fattens Traders' Fingers Plus! Ads and Data; Restocking, Destocking, and Equilibria; The Negotiations Continue; De-Risking;...
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Plus! Ads and Data; Restocking, Destocking, and Equilibria; The Negotiations Continue; De-Risking; Other Angles
Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 367 ...
5 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance) For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
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For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
Infinite Scroll
The New Age of Thought Crime Conservatives raged against woke cancellations. Now they're eagerly doing it themselves.
2 months ago
Quanta Magazine
New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync. ...
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The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync. The post New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Vadim Kravcenko
Bullsh*t Jobs Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the...
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Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of […] The post Bullsh*t Jobs appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Home on Erik...
Optimizing over multinomial distributions Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 +...
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Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 + ldots + w_n = 1 $$ and $$ 0 le w_i le 1 $$ . Usually, $$ f $$ is concave and differentiable, so there's one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent.
Retail Design Blog
RWE Offices by JLL “The Flow” office space in Seoul by JLL merges energy-inspired design motifs, modern-industrial...
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“The Flow” office space in Seoul by JLL merges energy-inspired design motifs, modern-industrial elements, and Korean sustainability features, prioritizing employee...
Jonas Hietala
2012 Read Books I read a post, sadly lost the link, where the author had recorded all books she had read during the...
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I read a post, sadly lost the link, where the author had recorded all books she had read during the year and I thought it’d be pretty fun to do. So here goes, in a mostly ordered list. The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin Världens Whiskey More of a reference book. Linear Algebra...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
over a year ago
exist
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
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Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
The Marginalian
Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and... "Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels;...
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"Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they misrepresent."
Diaries of Note
He really wants me, as usual In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie...
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In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie Ernaux published Passion simple, a brief, semi-autobiographical novel in which its narrator recounts her intensely passionate, all-consuming two-year relationship with a married man....
Mind Prison: Notes...
OpenAI ends the era of reality with Sora Notes From the Desk: No. 26 - 2024.02.15
a year ago
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
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Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Arduino Blog
Meet Pico: A smart companion robot with vision Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel...
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Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel MateoTechLab has adapted it into a shoulder-mounted animatronic named “Pico” that can constantly interact with the wearer. All movement, sound generation, and lighting are handled...
mtlynch.io
Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...
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For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Zig is a great language for performance...
Atoms vs Bits
Keyword Conversations No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
7 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Lemon Lyme Summer The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips...
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The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips of the pines above glow for a moment before the sun slides up and behind the distant clouds. The sun rises near the center of the bay when we arrive in April, but by the solstice...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pain Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool. Today's News:
99% Invisible
The Little Levee That Could [EPISODE] Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme...
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Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weather that is coming their way. But this story is about a place that managed to get the kind of infrastructure that will actually help it survive climate change. How after more than...
./techtipsy
Life is maintenance, maintenance is life Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building...
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Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things. When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get...
xkcd.com
Survey Marker
a year ago
David Crawshaw
2016-01-07 "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know."
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
Maps Mania
Google's AI Hurricane Predictor
3 weeks ago
Wanderingspace
Mars Express is Still Making Great Images 20 Years Later Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In...
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Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In one shot, you can see Mars as a half-lit disk, with Phobos, its tiny moon, hovering above. Right below Phobos is Olympus Mons, the solar system's largest volcano, towering 22 km...
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 7 Senzeni Na Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
6 months ago
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Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. [Edit: If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may find a career at my company, Terraform Industries, rewarding. We’re hiring...
One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Trade Deficit increased to $78.2 Billion in November The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S....
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6 months ago
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $78.2 billion in November, up $4.6 billion from $73.6 billion in October, revised. ...
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
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The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Karma Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out. Today's News:
Rest of World -...
The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
over a year ago
Construction Physics
Should the Federal Government Sell Land? An early version of the US Senate budget bill which passed last week included a provision to sell...
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An early version of the US Senate budget bill which passed last week included a provision to sell off between 2 and 3 million acres of federal land in western states, ostensibly to be used for homebuilding.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #43: An awesome drone trial in central London, legalised e-scooters at last, and... And yes, I am on Bluesky.
7 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
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over a year ago
The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
Abishek Muthian
On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
TheCollector
What Is the Third Epistle of John About? The Third Epistle of John (3 John) is the shortest book in the New Testament, with a word count of...
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The Third Epistle of John (3 John) is the shortest book in the New Testament, with a word count of 219 words in the original Greek, though it has more verses than 2 John. It is also the only New Testament book that does not mention the word, Jesus or Christ, though it alludes […]
Noahpinion
Secrets of Japanese urbanism (part 2) A review of "Emergent Tokyo", by Jorge Almazan and Studiolab
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm going to Hawaii with my co-founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] and I are headed to Hawaii tomorrow morning for a 10 day trip. I just emailed the team, and I thought in line with one of our core...
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
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Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Londonist
We're Getting Fired Up About This Hot Sauce Festival In Peckham Enjoy the spicier things in life.
a year ago
bookbear express
How They Made It: Todd and Elaine of Dandelion Chocolate on work and marriage for all the people who fantasize about working with their spouse
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring circle STARKs
11 months ago
Wuthering...
Please read Greek philosophy with me - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, dog men, people jumping in... Greek philosophy, readalong #2. This idea got more interesting the more I thought about it, but...
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over a year ago
Greek philosophy, readalong #2. This idea got more interesting the more I thought about it, but had more organizational problems, plus the greater problem that I do not think of philosophy as a strength of mine.  My solution has been to convert the project into literature. Is...
Asterisk
A Field Guide to AI Safety AI safety is starting to go mainstream, but the researchers who’ve been immersed in it for over a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
AI safety is starting to go mainstream, but the researchers who’ve been immersed in it for over a decade still have strong disagreements.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
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The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
Blog of Simple...
When does the CCPA apply?
a year ago
Londonist
10 Times That Fictional London Has Slipped Into Our Universe Glitches in the matrix.
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
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Welcome to April 2024, again. We’re back, again. Over the weekend, we were all greeted by now-familiar news—a nation-state was exploiting a “sophisticated” vulnerability for full compromise in yet another enterprise-grade SSLVPN device. We’ve seen all the commentary around the...
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I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
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Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
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A bronze sculpture by Camille Claudel, lost for over a century, was recently rediscovered in an uninhabited Parisian apartment. Over the weekend, the bronze cast of The Age of Maturity fetched $3.8 million at a Philocale auction in Orléans, France—proving that Claudel’s artistic...
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The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete state given that the Civil War had begun the previous month, but that was a coincidence. The replacement of the original wooden dome had been planned for some time. The old dome was...
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‘Creativity is the art of balancing the infinite and the finite.’ This quote from Oscar Wilde perfectly captures the essence...
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Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure. The post A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph first appeared on Quanta...
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In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends toward money. Of course it does. Because, capitalism. Karpf is in the midst of a chronological reread of the entire WIRED magazine corpus — of great interest to me, of...
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The TfL website last underwent a thorough design upgrade in 2014 and hasn't changed much since, template-wise. But times move on, not least the increased necessity for accessible responsive design, so a change is arguably long overdue. And here we go... I think it's just the...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales Increase to 698,000 Annual Rate in December Brief excerpt: The Census Bureau reported New Home Sales in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 698 thousand. The previous three months were...
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There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great…
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A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
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We all have our aspirations and goals in life and career. For me, it goes from having an impact on my full-time work to helping designers via my blog, email newsletter, and other educational content. I need to work damn hard to achieve these goals! Making the
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There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
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Runner 1907–1908 UK-born, Chicago-based artist Philip Hartigan has posted a brief video piece about Franz Kafka’s drawings. Kafka, of course, wrote a body of work, mostly never published during his lifetime, that captured the absurdity and the loneliness of the newly emerging...
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✏️ I'm damn near eighty! Day 14: Sept 23, 2023 — It’s been a number of years since we’ve attended a wedding. In addition to...
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Day 14: Sept 23, 2023 — It’s been a number of years since we’ve attended a wedding. In addition to seeing the immediate family, we’re invited to Jen’s cousin’s wedding, which by proxy includes spending time with extended family. Even counting the lost pandemic years, I haven’t...
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As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
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In our work to make things better, it’s easy to overlook two things: The best way to make things better is to begin. Create the conditions for others to join you. Persist.
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by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
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I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. Part of this process involves archiving every post on a social network, running Computer Vision models on every image posted to the network, and running sentiment...
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“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
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Collections: What Do Historians Do? For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!)...
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For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets Made” from the perspective of the different people who do it – research historians, public...
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3D in D3 I have spent some time lately with D3. It's a lot of fun to build interactive graphs. See for...
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I have spent some time lately with D3. It's a lot of fun to build interactive graphs. See for instance this demo (will provide a longer writeup soon). D3 doesn't have support for 3D but you can do projections into 2D pretty easily.
Old Structures...
The Shapes Arise Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project,...
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Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, part of protecting lower Manhattan from the kind of flooding that occurred during Hurricane Sandy. Much of it is relatively straightforward: there’s a big berm being added to the...
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How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference...
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Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference organised by Altinity. It was a fantastic opportunity to…
Quanta Magazine
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By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. The post How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Unpacked
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As I wrapped up the research for this piece and was about to start writing, OpenAI had a perfect announcement to go with it - they are temporarily disabling the “Browse with Bing" feature on ChatGPT. If you haven’t used it before, this is a feature available to paying Plus users....
Arduino Blog
Kick off the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with these Formula 1-inspired Arduino projects The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the...
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The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
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What Really Happened During the Yellowstone Park Flood? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Every year, a deluge of...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Every year, a deluge of tourists stream into Yellowstone National Park, America’s first and possibly most famous national park, and (I would argue) one of the most beautiful and geographically rich places on...
The Marginalian
Raising Hare: The Moving Story of How a Helpless Creature Helped a Workaholic Wake Up from the... Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal...
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Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you free from expectation, unfiltered through your fantasies or needs, and it becomes...
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Exploring a Postgres query plan I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into...
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I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into the execution layer so you're given a query plan and you get to decide what to do with it. What rows to return, if any, and where they come from. That's very interesting. So I...
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Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy lately. The Swedes and the Germans in particular are now eager to take inspiration from The Danish Model, given their predicaments. The very same countries that until recently...
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The IITs remain undefeated They took up seven out of the top 10 slots in a recent government ranking.
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Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a four-digit number with digits , and , then will always be a multiple of . For example, and . Mathematically this is uninteresting. The proof is completely trivial. (Such a number is simply , and .) But I...
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Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap" Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a...
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Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a free talk near my town the next morning. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns, one of my favorite books of the last few years. So, my wife and I attended the talk and enjoyed it. The...
Stoic Simple
Becoming a Better Leader with Stoicism: The Stoic Leadership Lessons Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a...
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Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a philosophy that emphasizes the development of emotional resilience, personal ethics, and wisdom. Stoicism has gained popularity in recent years as an effective tool for personal growth,...
Asterisk
Intelligence Testing Everyone agrees that AIs are getting smarter — but it’s surprisingly difficult to measure by how...
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Everyone agrees that AIs are getting smarter — but it’s surprisingly difficult to measure by how much.
Retail Design Blog
Ascent office by MoVe Architects Our team was entrusted with transforming this office into a modern, efficient environment that...
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Our team was entrusted with transforming this office into a modern, efficient environment that reflects Ascent’s dynamic and forward-thinking ethos....
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Elon Musk’s childishness knows no bounds. Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the...
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Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves."Don't advertise... If somebody did try to blackmail me with...
Both Are True
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Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that way, it is completely understandable...
Yale E360
Imperiled in the Wild, Many Plants May Survive Only in Gardens As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists are racing to preserve...
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As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists are racing to preserve endangered plant species in botanical garden “metacollections” in the hope of eventually returning them to the wild. But what happens when there is no suitable habitat to return them...
Elad Blog
Clubhouse: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 1) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
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This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
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The Fastest Way to Get Up to Speed on Machine Learning Fundamentals for Free Announcing the ML Road Map-Turbo
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Calculated Risk
Trump Drops Tariffs to 10% Just minutes after Goldman Sachs put out a note forecasting a recession, Mr. Trump lowered all...
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Just minutes after Goldman Sachs put out a note forecasting a recession, Mr. Trump lowered all tariffs to 10% (except China). Moving to a Recession Baseline We now expect the US’s effective tariff rate to rise by at least 20pp and are forecasting a recession with a 12-month...
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Fatih Arslan
Faculty of Architecture, METU Ankara The Faculty of Architecture of the METU (one of Turkey's elite universities) was always something...
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The Faculty of Architecture of the METU (one of Turkey's elite universities) was always something that piqued my interest. It was built in 1960's, during the Brutalism era. It's one of the most sophisticated and well-known brutalist buildings in Turkey, especially in Ankara.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Things Which Make a Life of Ease' R.L. Barth, our finest living epigrammist (admittedly, not a vast job description), has sent me his...
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R.L. Barth, our finest living epigrammist (admittedly, not a vast job description), has sent me his translation of a well-known epigram by Martial, the Roman master of the pithy form. Bob found it among his papers and doesn’t remember making it. “[T]ranslating something [Ben]...
Old Structures...
The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th...
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I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th Street. Those two rowhouses are listed in the records of the Upper East Side Historic District as having been built between 1882 and 1885 as part of a larger row, with the other...
Christopher Butler
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction. When the iPhone...
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There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction. When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as phone, camera, music player, web browser, and so...
Tech + Economics +...
Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability....
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We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability. With tools like ChatGPT, anyone can conjure up rewritten Wikipedia articles, essays, code, poetry, and more with just a few prompts. This "democratisation" of content creation...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.05 - 4th Of July New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
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This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
Seth's Blog
The lonely zone For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the...
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For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the person who counts. And often, we enjoy piling on. Once the cause or fashion or tech is clearly working, it’s easy and fun to say “me too.” More rare, more vulnerable and more...
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
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The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
Abhishek Chakraborty
Opportunity v FOMO Competition gives us a framework to measure ourselves against others. It tells us where we stand in...
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Competition gives us a framework to measure ourselves against others. It tells us where we stand in the world, how far ahead or behind we are from those similar to us. But too much of it is detrimental.
Retail Design Blog
Prolan | Minhoff office by UP.GREAT Inviting, collaborative working environment with a special spirit in the rooms of a historic villa....
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Inviting, collaborative working environment with a special spirit in the rooms of a historic villa. A beautiful, historic villa on...
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) VC funding, here we come.
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Messy is Perfect I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing...
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I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing in, conversions are steady, the app works flawlessly, and revenue is predictable. But that’s not life. And nor is business. Life is messy. And there’s no such thing as perfect. At...
TheCollector
Who Was Leo Strauss? (Bio and Philosophy) Leo Strauss was not just an ordinary philosopher or political thinker; his influence spanned...
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Leo Strauss was not just an ordinary philosopher or political thinker; his influence spanned continents and still generates discussion long after he died in 1973. So, who exactly was Leo Strauss? By delving into his time at the University of Chicago, how he approached classic...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A non-coder's thoughts on an 'Everybody Codes' culture One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous...
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One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous experience as a developer or engineer, but we…
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What comes after the blockchain? A new crop of fintech startups are tackling blockchain-inspired problems without the blockchain.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ten points if you try this. Fifteen if it ruins your relationship. Sixteen if it ruins your life. Today's News:
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s) This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails.   A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
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the taste issue things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
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Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock park” green spaces between big apartment structures are a defining characteristic of the city. They’re not so much “parks” in the formal sense, with fences and gates, just open...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.22 - Truth Serum New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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In the following narrative, a bus driver describes how the cuts that Elon Musk is carrying out in the federal government are affecting ordinary public transit workers. There is a poetic opposition between the figure of the anonymous bus driver and Elon Musk, the billionaire car...
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Customer Rewards Programs
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In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
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PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
NeuroLogica Blog
First Mission To Remove Space Debris I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing...
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I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing problem of space debris. At least this update is about a mission to help clear some of that debris – ClearSpace-1. This is an ESA mission which they contracted out to a Swiss...
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
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Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
The Rational Walk
A Seamless Web of Deserved Trust Trust is earned over many years. Seamless trust requires decades.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Theme Parks, Festivals, and More in Florida
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Applied Cartography
Peak Newsletter A handful of folks sent me this quip from Nate Silver a few days ago: Slightly against interest to...
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A handful of folks sent me this quip from Nate Silver a few days ago: Slightly against interest to admit this (I don't want more competition lol) but I think we're still probably a year or two away from Peak Newsletter. It's just a really good distribution mechanism for certain...
The Diff
Two Models of Forward-Deployed Engineers Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March;...
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Applied Cartography
You should use Helpscout Was digging through old issues of the personal site and found this draft snippet: I was evaluating...
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Was digging through old issues of the personal site and found this draft snippet: I was evaluating HelpScout as a potential first step in a series of many, many steps to onboard a dedicated support engineer for Buttondown, and it turns out that the process of adding custom...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Bro Economy Everywhere Plus! Oral Traditions, Woke Chili, and Montoya
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Computers of the future How to process information without waste
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Archinect - Features
Design, Computation, and Humans: Exploring the Intersection with Onur Yüce Gün For Onur Yüce Gün, the study of computation is the study of the human condition itself. A mission to...
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For Onur Yüce Gün, the study of computation is the study of the human condition itself. A mission to anchor humans at the center of AI and computational design brought Gün on an educational journey from Middle East Technical University in his native Turkey to the MIT Design and...
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
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After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.38% in February From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.38% in February The...
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From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.38% in February The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 2 basis points from 0.40% of servicers’...
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy As Meta Governance While anyone can buy stock in public firms, private equity firms are instead held by a more...
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While anyone can buy stock in public firms, private equity firms are instead held by a more concentrated and exclusive set of owners.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Web as URLs, Not Documents Dan Abramov on his blog (emphasis mine): The division between the frontend and the backend is...
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Dan Abramov on his blog (emphasis mine): The division between the frontend and the backend is physical. We can’t escape from the fact that we’re writing client/server applications. Some logic is naturally more suited to either side. But one side should not dominate the other. And...
Yale E360
Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting) Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing...
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Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1. And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years. That's more than half my career to date. Why did I do that? And would I do it...
The American Scholar
The Art of Coping In a time of anger, frustration, and anxiety, the humanities have much to teach us about how to deal...
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In a time of anger, frustration, and anxiety, the humanities have much to teach us about how to deal with life The post The Art of Coping appeared first on The American Scholar.
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern L-Shaped Home Surrounded By A Pine Tree Forest Design build firm MAFCOhouse, has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Haliburton,...
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Design build firm MAFCOhouse, has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Haliburton, Ontario, for a family that wanted a place in cottage country with a cozy vibe. Working with the family, MAFCOhouse searched hard and found a four-acre lot with southern and...
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
I had to let Go of Java If you're a millennial and involved in SW-development then its likely Java has touched your life in...
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If you're a millennial and involved in SW-development then its likely Java has touched your life in some way. Java was the magic pill in late 90s in India and every Engineering graduate irrespective of their domain was told to get certified in it for a job. My sister(ECE) was one...
exist
A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the...
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In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the Metaverse and Large Language Models (LLMs). Though the Metaverse, a virtual reality-based universe, initially garnered significant attention and expectations, it ultimately failed to...
Rest of World -...
China’s bite-sized soap operas are peddling cheap plots for big profits Sex scenes, revenge, and cliffhangers are jam-packed into minutes-long smartphone dramas.
over a year ago
Quanta Magazine
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling...
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Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. The post The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences first appeared on Quanta...
CONTEMPORIST
Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of...
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Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of boutique hotel villas in Thailand. The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 SEEN, READ 2024 01/05 PREDATORS, AMERICAN GREED — Steven Soderbergh Director Steven Soderbergh's media recap of...
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01/05 PREDATORS, AMERICAN GREED — Steven Soderbergh Director Steven Soderbergh's media recap of 2024. It's fascinating to see how many movies he watched multiple times, and the reverse watch of the original Star Wars trilogy. Phantom of the Menace twice too? Visit original link →...
Contemporist...
Wood Houses Appear Through The Tops Of The Trees At This Nature-Focused Resort Stilt Studios has shared photos of a newly completed project called the Treehouse Villa, which is...
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Stilt Studios has shared photos of a newly completed project called the Treehouse Villa, which is located in Grün Resort Uluwatu, a family-run nature-focused luxury boutique resort in Bali.
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: The world that has never been Introducing Speculative Technologies
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Fossil Fuels – Reduce Demand or Supply? This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a...
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This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a somewhat of a dilemma. Is the optimal path to reductions and eventual elimination of fossil fuel burning through reduced demand or supply? There are some interesting tradeoffs...
CONTEMPORIST
This Coastal-Inspired Interior Is Soft And Calming Melling Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a duplex in Vancouver, turning it...
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Melling Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a duplex in Vancouver, turning it into a warm and effortlessly coastal home for a young, active family. The home was completed in January 2023 and truly embodies the considered yet breezy essence of Kitsilano...
Letters of Note
I’ve got a hunch In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to...
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In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to hospital. He was soon diagnosed as having tuberculosis of the brain, from which he would never recover. Wolfe died on 15th September, aged just 37. A month before his death, as he lay in...
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: March 2024 Photography, portraits and protest.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2015 in Review Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 Geek Achievements Finished my university...
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Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 Geek Achievements Finished my university studies and got a Master in Computer Science. Discovered a new boardgame love: Android Netrunner. Finished top 4 in my first Netrunner Store Championship. Won a small local Netrunner...
TheCollector
How Pompeii’s Bodies Are Preserved, Frozen in Time In 79 CE, the Vesuvius volcano in Southern Italy erupted, destroying settlements around it and...
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In 79 CE, the Vesuvius volcano in Southern Italy erupted, destroying settlements around it and taking the lives of up to 16,000 residents. The most significant death toll occurred in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, wealthy local centers of trade and production. Since their...
Krebs on Security
Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a...
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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court...
Retail Design Blog
LOEWE store Last week, Spanish luxury brand LOEWE inaugurated a new second boutique in Indonesia‘s bustling...
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Last week, Spanish luxury brand LOEWE inaugurated a new second boutique in Indonesia‘s bustling capital Jakarta. Following an outpost at...
CommitStrip
The right tool for the right job at the right time?
over a year ago
Noahpinion
We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology A guest post by Joshua March and Kasia Gora
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
What to Make of Havana Syndrome I have not written before about Havana Syndrome, mostly because I have not been able to come to any...
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I have not written before about Havana Syndrome, mostly because I have not been able to come to any strong conclusions about it. In 2016 there was a cluster of strange neurological symptoms among people working at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba. They would suddenly experience...
UX Collective
Office politics: the skill they never taught us Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Command K Bars Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut
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Articles
Do you need marketing tracking and automation?
over a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
The Changing Mix of Light Vehicle Sales An update: The first graph below shows the mix of sales since 1976 (Blue is cars, Red is light...
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An update: The first graph below shows the mix of sales since 1976 (Blue is cars, Red is light trucks and SUVs) through January 2025. Click on graph for larger image. Over time the mix has changed toward more and more light trucks and SUVs.  Only when oil prices are high, does...
The American Scholar
“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov appeared first on...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov appeared first on The American Scholar.
Contemporist...
A Re-Imagined Side Extension With A Slatted Wood Design YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London,...
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YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London, England, that creates an open and bright dining area and kitchen.
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? 👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
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👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it. Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
Open Culture
How Henri Matisse Scandalized the Art Establishment with His Daring Use of Color Even those of us not particularly well-versed in art history have heard of a painting style called...
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Even those of us not particularly well-versed in art history have heard of a painting style called fauvism — and probably have never considered what it has to do with fauve, the French word for a wild beast. In fact, the two have everything to do with one another, at least in the...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 4 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 4: My...
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Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 4: My First Dollar of Revenue
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
./techtipsy
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures. At...
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Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures. At one point I had a few single-board computers sitting idle, namely the Orange Pi Zero and the LattePanda V1, and a few 1TB SSD-s. I hate idle hardware, so I did the most sensible...
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is...
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I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post. This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again. But first a bit of context. What did I fail at? In February of 2024 I...
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
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8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
Nothing Human
Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
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The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
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There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
Handprinted - Blog
Easy Christmas Cards Six Ways We’ve had a lot of fun this week working on easy, quick and fun ways to print your own Christmas...
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We’ve had a lot of fun this week working on easy, quick and fun ways to print your own Christmas cards! We’ve come up with six simple ways for you to try. Take a look at our instructions below and have a go yourself.   Bah Humbug Lino Printed Card This two-layered lino card is...
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The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
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When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
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The segmentation of the venture industry Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model...
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Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model T.  At the time, customers were seeking…
Flashbak
Gigs, Fights And An Alien Sex Fiend: Posters In London, c. 1990 Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First...
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Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First indie nights. Posters advertising the show went up around the area in other parts of London, featuring the faces of lead singer Nicholas Wade (aka Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs...
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
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If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
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How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
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Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
Liz Denys
Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
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LED Industrial Piercing [Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
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Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
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